Household tuberculosis contact investigation in a tuberculosis-prevalent country: Are the tuberculin skin test and interferon-gamma release assay enough in elderly contacts?

The high background rates of positive results on the tuberculin skin test (TST) and interferon-gamma release assay (IGRA) sometimes confuse the investigation of tuberculosis (TB) contact in TB-prevalent countries, particularly in elderly contacts. The aim was to investigate the predictive value of T...

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Autores principales: Eom, Jung Seop, Kim, Insu, Kim, Won-Young, Jo, Eun-Jung, Mok, Jeongha, Kim, Mi-Hyun, Lee, Kwangha, Kim, Ki Uk, Park, Hye-Kyung, Lee, Min Ki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer Health 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5779786/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29505017
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000009681

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5779786/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29505017
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000009681

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